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Tuesday, January 23, 1940 Tlie DAILY NERRASKAN Brownemen play at sas Huskers seek second Big Six victory .Kae mm by June Bierbower. Although Nebraska's prospects for outdoor track seem rosier than those for the indoor event because of a powerful array of field event stars, Saturday's first track "fccl ouf of the season for the indoor team was extremely gratifying, to eny the least. Harold Brooks, state high school medalist in the mile two years ago, turned in a 4:25 mile, best ever made under the stadium which Is little short of astonishing on the kidney-shaped track under the oast etadium, and In view of the fact that this is only the second semes ter in school for Brooks. The Gothenburg boy will be eligible for varsity competition next semester, and may make Ray Gnhan. Ray Harris and a guy named Munskl trot for their laurels. Fred Matteson, a fine runner in his day, never got better than 4:30 on the Indoor track, and Charley Mitchell of Kansas State, who had held the best mark ever made on the track, did 4:29 in the dual meet last year. Bob Ginn, froih runner, and the best half miler in the state's high school ranks last spring, also bet tered Matteson's mark, and Bill Cook, two-milcr, came within one second of it. And when you stop to think that most races this early In the season are done In about 4:30 or 4:40: that sounds very fine And for those who are interested, Brooks and Ginn have both neared Matteson's outdoor mark in the mile, Brooks having turned in mark of 9:54.4, and Ginn 9:45.6 last fall. Red Littler, Junior A. A. U, champion in the 200 meter dash was bothered by an Injured leg but he was fast enough to hobbl through to win the 60 and 440 yard events in 6.5 and 52.2 seconds res Ticctivcly. both of which times would pick up good points. Bill Smutz, soph hurdler who .has improved rapidly since coming to Nebraska, shows promise of picking up plenty of points for the Huskers before he's through. His times of 7.9 and 7.2 seconds were the same times as the winners of the two events made in last year's Nebraska-Oklahoma duel. Since we're getting very opti mistic, we should mention Ed Wibbels, too. He's finally decided to forego football, and, with Elmer Hackney out of commission should be the best shot putter in the con fcrence this year. The 43-1 mark he got Saturday is better than most of this year's midwest crop will be' getting. Herman Rohrig will be on the spot next year, as we see that Grant Rice Is his newest professed watcher. Although it n going to b a little hard on Herman, it's goinji to be hard on some of the boys on the other teams if they forget about Harry Hopp, Roy Petsch, Bus Knight, Vike Francis, Bob Kahler, Bob DeFruiter and Henry Rolin. For provided scolastic and other difficulties don't rear up, the Iluskers backfield, and their guard contingent of Ed Schwartz kopf, Warren Alfson, Hub Monsky and George Abel, should compare with any in the country next fall, When any one of them is taken out, the only difference a substitu tion will make is to put a frenher man in.the game, tnd in that case It s hard to concentrate on "marked man." Ed Weir, generally considered one or the greatest players th game of football has ever known came in for more honors in Grant Rice's column Monday, as Rico put forth an all-time team, which he called "a combined all-time, all America a Stuhldreher-Rice spec lai witn the shade of Knut Rockne thrown In." In Grantland's Collier's all-time team, he picked Flncher of Gcorsri Tech over Weir for a tackle cost tion, but on Stuhldreher's recom mendation, Weir got the nod yes leraay. The Wisconsin coach. former Notre Dame player, said "Weir was the only football player picked by Notre Dame nlav ers as the best man Notre Dame faced three straight vears. He was the greatest tackle I ever saw- extremely fast, alert and n Feres Bive. Weir had everything it takes." " ay Berwanger, the best player we have ever seen, made a place Don Fitz misses trip to Lawrence where Scarlet meets KU Nebraska's Cornhuskers, hungry for their second Big Six victory after losing two conference games in a row, Invade Lawrence for a game with the Kansas Jayhawks tonight. The Huskers started off with a 48-26 win over Iowa State, but dropped their second game to Mis souri, 46-33, and Friday night lost again, this time to Kansas State 35-22. Kansas, meanwhile, as tounded the Big Six by walloping Oklahoma co-champions with Missouri, 46-26 before nipping K State, 34-33, but lost last week to Missouri at Columbia, 42-31. Nebraska, In meeting the Jay hawks, will be attempting to break a string of 17 consecutive victories the Jayhawks have won on their home floor. Kansas has not been beaten at Lawrence since Oklahoma turned the trick early in 1938. Nebraska lost a thriller last year at Kansas, 46-43, after beating the Jayhawks at home earlier in the season. K. U. woeful. Press reports emanating from Kansas are singing songs of woe because of the height advantage the Huskers will hold. Al Randall, who has led Husker scorers In tlie past two conference games, stands 6 feet 7 inches, and guards Bob Thericn and Sid Held arc each 6 feet 4 Inches tall. Mean while, the tallest Kansas player is John Kline, 6 feet 2'2 inch guard. However, none of the Kansans in the starting lineup are under feet, although of course, the Husk ers are taller on the average, with only Harry Pitcaithlcy of the starters under 6 feet. Starting for KU will probably be Ralph Miller and Don Ebling or Howard Engelman at forwards; Bob Allen at center, and Dick Harp and probably Bruce Voran Voran, the prize utility man of the conference, can play any position and is often held on the bench so that Coach Phog Allen can see at which position he is most needed Huskers miss shots. The Huskers seem to have lost their basket eyes in the last two games, having made only 14 of 80 shots against Missouri, and 10 of 57 against Kansas State. Without Fitz, who will be out of tonight's game again, the inexperienced team lacks a balance-wheel, and in the past two games has missed set-up after set-up. Fitz attended classes Monday for the first time since last week and said his knee "felt fine." Al though he is out of tonight's game he may be able to go Saturday night against Oklahoma. He was present at the Husker workout, and shot a few baskets, although he did not suit up. The Huskers saw pictures of last year s KU game, and worked on set-ups last night in a light drill. Ten men will make the trip including game captain Harry Pit caithley, who will keep among the leaders in Big Six scoring pro on the team. Stuhldreher says "Berwanger. . .on any good team would have been the greatest of them all. (Meaning Thorpe, Gipp Grange, Nevers and Eckersall.) Other men on the team are Ger many Schultz, Michigan center Pudge, Heffelfinger , Yale, and Bochy Koch, guards, Baylor; Fats Henry. W & J, tackle; Brick Mul lor, Stanford, and Wes Feslcr, Ohio State ends; Jim Thorps, Carlisle Red Grange, Illinois; George Gipp Notre Dame, backs. SELL YOUR BOOKS FOR CASH We Pay More 1 lUMOU E pries Years football drops below 200,000 mark Nebraska football attendance for the 1939 season dropped below the 200,000 mark last year for the first time since 1935. However, in view of the fact that only four games were at home, and of the general condi tion of mid-west business, the to tals were very satisfactory, ac cording to business manager John K. Sellcck, who says there Is us ually a normal drop every other year, because of the way the sched ule runs. The total fell off 38,247 from last year, when it was 237,390. This year's mark of 199,143 paid ad missions was lowest since 1935 when there were 193,558 paid ad missions. Largest crowd this year was at the Oklahoma game here, as 34,- 641 paid their way Into the Bay 521 people paid their way in. 29,- 628 watched Minnesota play here, 28,488 were at the Balor game, and 26,641 paid their way Into the Kansas game. More than 8,000 of those in attendance at the Baylor contest were knotholers. Road games hurt It was the out-of-town schedule which took the Huskers' mark down this year. Only 11,770 saw the Iowa State game, and the In diana crowd was only 12,187. 15, 203 saw the Missouri game, as the only crowd of any size to see vided that he has a good night to night. Others going are Frank Tallman, Irv Yaffe, Al Randall, Bruce Duncan, Bob Therien, Sid Held, Hartmann Goetze, Lyle King, Charley Vacant!. Probable starting lineups: Knnu Nebraska KbllnB f.... Pitcaithlcy (sc) Miller t Tallman Allen c... Randall Voran K Thericn Harp g Held Hagelin sends frosh, varsity swim teams thru tryouts Pete Hagelin, Hu3ker swimming coach, pitted his varsity and frosh crews together for tryouts for the meet Friday afternoon In several events, as Les Oldficld, freshman ace from Lincoln high turned in the best time of the afternoon with a 1:55.4 mark in the 150 yard backstroke. Bill Edwards, sophomore star from Lincoln, paced the varsity as he turned in the best time for the upperclassmen with a :57.9 mark in the 100 yard freestyle. Edwards beat Don Hilgert of the frosh to take the 50 yard freestyle in :26.1. Hilgert wins 440. Hilgert, another ex-Lincoln ace, did the 440 freestyle In 6:07, while Fred Rodenbeck, varsity letterman won the 200 yard breaststroke in 2:50.9. Rodenbeck, according to Hagelin, is the most improved man on the varsity this year, as his mark Friday was the best he has ever turned in. Bob Chatt, veteran, won tlie 200 TYPEWRITERS for SALE and RENT Nebraska Typewriter Co. IM N. I?th St. I-I1S7 LINCOLN, NEBIL Tet Books Student SupfrfiM i attendance the Iluskers on the road was at Pitt when 20,655 people paid to get in, and that was a far cry from the 64,164 paid admissions they drew at Pitt in 1937 in which year 215,395 people saw the Husk ers play for an all-time Nebraska record. Largest home crowd in Ne braska history turned out for the year's Indiana game, with attend ance figures totaling 39,360. Sec ond highest crowd in Nebraska history is the 52,530 people who saw the Iluskers play at Minne sota in 1936. 1934 total was 202, 320, and the 1936 aggregate was 214,715. Poor est crowd in the past six years has been at the 1938 game at Iowa, which drew only 6,280 peo ple. High school teams enter gym meet Thirteen schools have already submitted entries for the first high school gymnastics meet in Nebraska to be held at the uni versity March 15. Charlie Miller, Husker gymnas tics coach, originated the idea of such a meet, and obtained en dorsement for his project from the Nebraska High School Activities association. Most of Miller s var sity candidates have never had ex perience, and the state meet Is being held to endeavor to create more state-wide interest in the sport. Schools which have promised entries are Grand Island, Beatrice, Holdrege, Hastings, Kearney, Co lumbus, Omaha Tech, Omaha Ben son, Curtis, Crete, Holmesville Norfolk and Wilber. yard free style in 2:39.4, and in the diving event, Ralph Worden defending Big Six champion, won. Well balanced. The Husker squad is well-bal anced this year, although they're a little weak in the backstroke Hagelin, however, is expecting their record to be better than last year's. The Huskers open their season Feb. 3 here against the always strong Minnesota Gophers. Colo rado U. comes here Feb. 5, and Nebraska ends its home season Feb. 8 against Kansas State Other meets are Feb. 16, Iowa State at Ames; Feb. 17, Grinnell at Grinnell; Feb. 23, K-State at Manhattan; Feb. 24, Kansas at Lawrence; Feb. 26, Oklahoma at Norman; March 1 and 2, Big Six meet at Amos. ft SECOND SEMESTER Begins February 5 COURSES IN 9 Shorthand 9 9 Accounting j Typing 0 Machlnei 9 Taxation 9 English MmUr of Norland Anockitita f AccrtditW Comnwtlal School LINCOLN SCHOOL OF COMMERCE W. A. K0IIIK1, fnt. WfNs.14 Pit7 still leads n NU scoring; Randall fourth Harry Fitcuithley remained In the Husker scoring lead as he got six points against Kansas State Friday night, and should pass the century mark against Kansas this evening, having a total of 96 points in 11 games. Don Fitz, who is still out because of his knee injury, trails with 66 points in ten games, and Sid Held, sophomore star, Is still third with 69 in U games. AJ Randall, with eight points against K-State, supplanted Irv Yaffe in fourth place. Randall has 52 and Yaffee 48 points In eleven games apiece. Most fouls. Pitcaithlcy leads the team tn personal fouls as well as points, having made 21. Yaffe has 20, m and Randall 19. Pit's 96 points have come on 35 fielders and 28 free throws. c fK ft pf pta Harry Pitcaithlcy .... 11 35 28 21 OH lion Kits id z: in 14 fin Rid HeM 11 22 115 11 B9 Al Randall 11 19 14 19 r2 rv Yaffe 11 18 12 20 48 ''rank Tallman 11 1 7 14 39 fartmann Ooctzo .... 10 10 7 17 27 Hob Thericn B 11 1 4 23 Lvlc KinR 9 8 1 9 17 Charles Vacantl 8 3 117 Iiruce nunenn ........ 7 3 0 2 H Lps Llvlneston 7 0 K 7 5 John Hay 6 10 0 3 Hicks writes on finance Prof. Clifford M. Hicks of the department of business organiza tion and management is the au thor of a recently revised hand book entitled "Problems In Corpo ration Finance." The material fa cilitates the teaching of finance and is especially of value to schools where library facilities are limited or taxed to capacity, be cause it contains all necessary facts for problem solution. Void publishes book Prof. Lawrence Void of the col lege of law is author of a book review dealing with two recently published case books on torts, which la published in the December issue of the Cornell Law Quar terly. New arrivals supplement our stock of O'COATS on sale at 17 95 Sea these new arrivals (mostly all In the new green shades) that have Just been added to our stock of overcoats at the low price of 17.951 In the group are new Bal-styles and a few Dupllcoats. GOLD'S Men's Stora 11th St. Y